Life Quote by Stephan Crane

“He was a glittering superhuman creature who must have been put on earth by a perverse God to remind homely women like herself that…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“A sort of halo, an occidental glow, came over life then. Troubles and other realities took on themselves a metaphysical impalpability, sinking to mere…

— Thomas Hardy

“Some powerful magnificence not human in other words, seemed under me. And it was the same mild pink colour, like the water of a…

— Saul Bellow

“It was an illusion. It was a tangled knot of fears and deceits and dark struggles for power that had disguised itself and almost…

— Lois Lowry

“There seemed to be no end to the imaginative damage people could do to each other when the influences of societal pressures were removed.…

— Steve R. Yeager

“In any case it pleased him to imagine himself secretly in league with secret beings who appreciated the finer things in life, like the…

— Douglas Watson

“She could not fathom the hexagonal miracle of snowflakes formed from clouds, crystallized fern and feather that tumble down to light on a coat…

— Eowyn Ivey

“A man in a cloud, with icicle teeth and eyes of fire.”

— Margaret Atwood

“There are many who think that they are marvelous if they can simply resemble a great man in some one thing; and often they…

— Anonymous

“History had already done the really messy work, when Wintermute found him, sifting him out of all of the war’s ripe detritus, gliding into…

— William Gibson

“He knew full well, from his Spencer, that man can never attain ultimate knowledge of anything, and that the mystery of beauty was no…

— Jack London

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of…

— Plutarch